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Shack up v. i.

To live together in a sexual relationship, without being legally married. (Slang, U. S.)

To live in a cabin, shack, or other crude dwelling. (Slang, U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Shack up'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shack up" Quotes from Famous Books

... near Christmas, and Joe wouldn't consider any of the native wares as a gift. So he—he worked it himself in—in yellow worsted on a red background. I have it still, displayed in a conspicuous place in the shack up-river. But now I'll wager that you can't guess what the motto is across its front. He told me that he didn't care for it particularly himself, but it was the only one he could find. You can't guess, but you are permitted ...

— Then I'll Come Back to You • Larry Evans

... I ain't a man to make mystery if I am doing right, and I think I am. You know, I've got a little shack up on Silver Mountain in the little sugar-orchard I own there; never got enough sugar to say so, but I put up the shack one year when I was fool enough to think I might get something. Well, I'm going up there, and I'm going to live there awhile, and I'm going to sense ...

— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Words linked to "Shack up" : miscegenate, live, cohabit, dwell, populate, inhabit